Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733

"This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the go...

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Main Authors:	Gildenhard, Ingo, Zissos, Andrew
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Open Book Publishers 2021
Subjects:	commentary metamorphoses vocabulary myth ovid latin literature Acoetes Dionysus Pentheus Thebes Greece thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets
Online Access:	646656
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